Word: refueling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...m.p.h. won him the coveted pole position for the second year in a row. Foyt and Sachs exchanged the lead ten times before Foyt suffered the nightmare that has haunted motorists ever since the days of the model T: he ran out of gas. When Foyt paused disconsolately to refuel, Sachs took a formidable 31-sec. lead...
...event of war, Dhahran might be useful as a place to refuel nuclear bombers or as a refuge for them after a mission, since it is a mere 850 air miles from the Soviet border. But a powerful clique of Saudi royal princes has been ceaselessly nagging the King to toss the U.S.A.F. out of Dhahran. The princes were eager to appease Nasser and other Arab nationalists who had used the King's sufferance of a U.S. base on Arab soil as an excuse for attacks on the Saudi royal family...
...eight" in 1957. "ten or fifteen" in 1958 and in 1959, and "one or two" in 1960. When the big order finally came. Powers picked up a sack of sandwiches from his wife and flew southeast with Colonel Shelton to Pakistan, stopping once to refuel along the way. ("I do not remember the name of the airfield. I think it could have been Bahrein.") His briefing from Shelton was short-an hour and a half in which "I barely had time to study my maps." Powers claimed no knowledge of two unmarked survivor maps and the plea in 14 languages...
...field whether any soldiers were on board. Assured there were none, the Katangans allowed the plane to land. "This is a free country, and we do not want the United Nations here," shouted Katanga's Interior Minister at Bunche as he prepared to depart. "You can refuel your plane and leave!" As Bunche walked up the steps into the plane, the Katanga troops trained their guns on him until the door was closed...